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A square containing a circle, crossed through with an X, instructing that a garment must not be machine-dried.
Also known as: No tumble drying symbol
Part of the internationally coordinated GINETEX/ISO 3758 textile care labelling system, this symbol forbids tumble drying regardless of the machine's heat setting.
Related forms that are not treated as separate canonical symbols — see our variant rules.
Tumble dry permitted (with dot-count heat settings)
The same square-with-circle base symbol without the cross, with one, two or three dots inside the circle indicating low, medium or high permitted heat.
A square outline containing a circle, with a large X crossing through the whole symbol.